Sry Its Late Guys But Report From 11/12th

[trizkid]

arrived at tan vat at around 7am, we had the place to our selves. It was pretty chilly and damp. the water was up and a bit murky but not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Started fishing the first hole there by the parking area. Hooked in to one with in 5 min on a orange sparkle egg but ended up getting off. we headed up stream from there. Fished the next little run on the right walking up stream picked one up out of there on the sparkle egg, first two pictures. Continued fishing that spot for a min after the first one with no other luck. we walked just up stream to the next hole there with the tree down. I was still throughing a orange and pink y2k with a sparkle egg under it. After some time i got one outta the hole on the egg again. Ended up walking a ways up stream wia th no luck. so we headed back down to the car and went to the park. The sun was feeling pretty good around this time, 12:30-1. Ate lunch and head the the top of the flys only area just down stream from where the creek dumps in. Picked up a small little guy on a orange scud there. By around 3 there was a nice caddis and grayish midge hatch. we decided to head to the catch and release. We were happy we did, tthey were killin the dries. buddy was using a tiny emerger of some sort and i was throughing a size 18 lightgray dun, both of us were doing very well. didnt even have to bust my c&r secret fly( some of u could proly guess what that is.) Stopped fishing the c&r around 5 and headed to set up camp. That night wasnt to cold, but woke up in the morning at around 5 to it raining on the tent. ended up getting up around 9 and started fishing the camp site area. hooked in to 2 behind out site (313) but didnt got off quickly. around noon we packed up camp and headed back to tan vat. walked down stream this time walked aways down stream untill we reached the part with the island with the small run on the back side. from the top of the island and down past it about 30 yards is where i had the best luck. i caught a nice bow of the sparkle egg is the fish fast deep hole, walked down stream a smidge and got 2 more 1 bow 1 brown. walked back up to the fast deep hole and tied on a size 6 y2k( might sound odd but worked) it was pretty heavily weighted so it got down to the bottom pretty good in that fast moving deeper water. got 2 more on that. headed back to the park to the c&r before we headed back to st. louis. 2 more there on black zonker.

[brownieman]

Can't help but to ask Tkid,

Did the fish you did catch seem to have their fins intact ??

Just curious...

later on

bm

[trizkid]

ya im pretty sure, or atleast i didnt notice......yd you ask?

[trizkid]

also have a couple of other pics and vids ill post when i get some time

[brownieman]

Just curious because when the MDC does their shocking they generally clip a piece of a fin off to mark the fish so they can tell if they hit the same fish twice while shocking the same area the second time.

Just think they could find a better way to mark fish other than cutting a chunk of fin off, ya know.

later on

bm

[ozark trout fisher]

arrived at tan vat at around 7am, we had the place to our selves. It was pretty chilly and damp. the water was up and a bit murky but not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Started fishing the first hole there by the parking area. Hooked in to one with in 5 min on a orange sparkle egg but ended up getting off. we headed up stream from there. Fished the next little run on the right walking up stream picked one up out of there on the sparkle egg, first two pictures. Continued fishing that spot for a min after the first one with no other luck. we walked just up stream to the next hole there with the tree down. I was still throughing a orange and pink y2k with a sparkle egg under it. After some time i got one outta the hole on the egg again. Ended up walking a ways up stream wia th no luck. so we headed back down to the car and went to the park. The sun was feeling pretty good around this time, 12:30-1. Ate lunch and head the the top of the flys only area just down stream from where the creek dumps in. Picked up a small little guy on a orange scud there. By around 3 there was a nice caddis and grayish midge hatch. we decided to head to the catch and release. We were happy we did, tthey were killin the dries. buddy was using a tiny emerger of some sort and i was throughing a size 18 lightgray dun, both of us were doing very well. didnt even have to bust my c&r secret fly( some of u could proly guess what that is.) Stopped fishing the c&r around 5 and headed to set up camp. That night wasnt to cold, but woke up in the morning at around 5 to it raining on the tent. ended up getting up around 9 and started fishing the camp site area. hooked in to 2 behind out site (313) but didnt got off quickly. around noon we packed up camp and headed back to tan vat. walked down stream this time walked aways down stream untill we reached the part with the island with the small run on the back side. from the top of the island and down past it about 30 yards is where i had the best luck. i caught a nice bow of the sparkle egg is the fish fast deep hole, walked down stream a smidge and got 2 more 1 bow 1 brown. walked back up to the fast deep hole and tied on a size 6 y2k( might sound odd but worked) it was pretty heavily weighted so it got down to the bottom pretty good in that fast moving deeper water. got 2 more on that. headed back to the park to the c&r before we headed back to st. louis. 2 more there on black zonker.

Nice pics

[Paola Cat]

Nice report and pics. The upper Current is truely an awesome place. Thanks for sharing. PC

[trizkid]

i did not know that about their fins, good to know though

[Al Agnew]

I agree about the fin clipping. I know it supposedly doesn't hurt or hinder the fish, but I'd really like at least the illusion that the fish I caught are survivors, not study subjects, and besides, it's just ugly. I like to catch trout and smallmouth partly because they are pretty fish. It's bad enough when you catch a one fresh from the hatchery and it barely struggles, and its fins are nubs and its nose looks like somebody took a wood rasp to it.

[fishinwrench]

Fin clipping.... Yep, Huge pet peve of mine.

Here's an interesting little tidbit though: I read that if you cut the adipose fin off a Trout, Salmon or Catfish that they won't travel as far. It supposably effects their homing abilities. I just found that kind of amazing.